Quotes About Individuality

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

For some of us, Halloween is everyday.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

G.K. Chesterton said: "People are equal in the same way pennies are equal. Some are bright, others are dull; some are worn smooth, others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value for each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings.

People don't want to be projects.

Speaking of names, a word to parents: Stop using alternate spellings for your kids. Aimee, Eryn, Bil, Derik. You're only costing jobs. The whole customized-coffee-mug and key-chain industry. An entire generation is being robbed of their roadside-Florida-souvenir heritage. "Daddy, why don't they ever have my name? I see something close, but it's spelled different." "Sorry, honey, we decided to be pricks.

Don't you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don't follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves!

the key to achievement in life is not letting others define your towers.

Maybe it was their names, they thought. Stinky, Cheese-Dick and Ringworm.

couldn't be scathed. He was the crack in the system

Pipe down, Chumley! I don't know what black hole of personal ambition you climbed out of, but it's now time to skee-daddle on back, you Crisco-based life-form.

That's the whole key to life: Fuck the conventional wisdom on elves.

Belong to a religion? Doesn't bother me if you do, as long as it's not one that says to stop thinking and be loud about it.

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?

she said she didn't think he should be Trevor, but rather just himself.

In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn't want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

I ain't gonna tat my face. I ain't no follower. I ain't got no reason to tat my face.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.